The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers- P3:This new book, from Photoshop User magazine editor and bestselling author Scott Kelby, starts at the moment your digital camera photos come into Photoshop, and he shows you the Photoshop pros techniques for managing, correcting, retouching and outputting your photos to knock your client's socks off, and turn you into a Photoshop production wizard. | The Photoshop Book tor Digital Photographers Step Four After you have the cropping border where you want it. just press rhe Return key PC Enter key to crop the final cropped photo is shown at right . TIP Changing your mind If you ve dragged out a cropping border and then decide you don t want to crop the image there are three ways to cancel your crop 1 Press the Escape esc key on your keyboard and the crop will be canceled and the photo will remain untouched. 2 Look up in the Options Bar and you ll see the International symbol for No way as shown at right . Click the circle with the diagonal line through it to cancel your crop. or. 3 In the Toolbox click on another tool. This will bring up a warning dialog asking if you want to crop the image. To cancel don t press Cancel press Don t Crop. Adobe Photo hop Crop the image7 z Don t Crop x Cancel -Crop 46 Chapter 2 Cropping and Resizing The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers If you re outputting photos for clients chances are they re going to want them in standard sizes so they can easily find frames to fit their photos. If that s the case you ll find this technique handy because it lets you crop any image to a predetermined size like 5x7. 8x10 and so on . Cropping to a Specific Size Step One The portrait shown here measures and we want to crop it to be a perfect 5 x7 . First get the Crop tool and up in the Options Bar on the left you ll see fields for Width and Height. Enter the size you want for Width followed by rhe unit of measurement you want to use for example use in for inches px for pixels cm for centimeters mm for millimeters etc. . Next press the Tab key to jump over to rhe Height field and enter your desired height again followed by the unit of measurement as shown in the inset at left . Step Two After you ve entered these figures in rhe Options Bar click within your photo with the Crop tool and drag out a cropping border You ll notice that as you drag the border is constrained to a .
